In the StoryThe Pilgrim Everyone Was Waiting For
Twelve walkers are waiting for the man who changed their lives. They have never made this pilgrimage. On the Camino de Santiago, Inés Varela meets people who remember the same stranger. He is said to have helped them, saved them, set them moving again. Their stories give the route a destination no map mentions: finding the man they already believe they owe their thanks.
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Samuel Loureiro waited in his beige raincoat, a canvas satchel under his arm. He came two evenings a week to help pilgrims recover documents, call consulates, translate forms, and patiently explain that the cathedral could do nothing about a lost passport.Read the excerpt ↗